Hi Donna

[Guest guest]

Hi Donna,

I hope everything went well with the wedding. I am

sure that Staci looked beautiful as a bride. If you

have any pictures to send, I would love to see them.

I just called your dad, but Ron answered, so I have

spoken to him. I had the paramedics come and get Uncle

on Wednesday around 4:30AM, because he was so

combative I could not get near him to get his wet

clothes off and change the bedding. He was brought to

the hospital and it took four people to put restraints

on him, because he was combative there also. I spoke

with a social worker at the hospital and she gave me a

list of facilities with their doctors, since my #1

choice for a facility had no rooms available. I

searched all day on Wednesday and found one that had a

room available and that I liked for Uncle, they even

know about Lewy Body, which made me feel more secure

to leave him there, since not all facilities are not

really aware of Lewy Body and the sensitivities to

neuroleptics. Uncle was put into a nursing home on

Saturday, the same day as Staci's wedding. It has not

been easy. I visited him yesterday for his first full

day there and he was so drugged, because of his

combativeness they have to calm him, so they can

change him and get near him. It was very hard for me

to see him that way, but I am told by my support group

that it gets easier. They will slowly take him down

off the medications as he acclimates to the

surroundings and gets to know the people. He is

starting physical therapy today and they will have to

keep him off the drugs, so that he can stand. He has

been either in bed or a wheelchair since Wednesday, so

he needs to build up his muscle tone again to stand

and to use his walker. I hope things look better in

the next few days and weeks, because it was hard to

take to see him so drugged. So it happened sooner than

I anticipated, but it is only a month before I was

planning to put him in. Since he was in the hospital

it made it easier to go from there.

I keep you informed, I am going now to visit Uncle.

Love, Jan

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